List of Multibyte String Functions

Building Chinese Web Sites using PHP

Dr. Herong Yang, Version 2.11

Building Chinese Web Sites using PHP

∟Multibyte String Functions in UTF-8 Encoding

∟List of Multibyte String Functions

This section provides a quick list of multibyte string functions related to Chinese characters.

By reviewing the PHP manual, I consider the following multibyte string functions are important for manipulating Chinese character strings:

mb_check_encoding - Check if the string is valid for the specified encoding
mb_convert_encoding - Convert character encoding
mb_convert_variables - Convert character code in variable(s)
mb_decode_mimeheader - Decode string in MIME header field
mb_decode_numericentity - Decode HTML numeric string reference to character
mb_detect_encoding - Detect character encoding
mb_detect_order - Set/Get character encoding detection order
mb_encode_mimeheader - Encode string for MIME header
mb_encode_numericentity - Encode character to HTML numeric string reference
mb_get_info - Get internal settings of mbstring
mb_http_input - Detect HTTP input character encoding
mb_http_output - Set/Get HTTP output character encoding
mb_internal_encoding - Set/Get internal character encoding
mb_language - Set/Get current language
mb_list_encodings_alias_names - Returns an array of all supported alias encodings
mb_list_encodings - Returns an array of all supported encodings
mb_list_mime_names - Returns an array or string of all supported mime names
mb_output_handler - Callback function converts character encoding in output buffer
mb_parse_str - Parse GET/POST/COOKIE data and set global variable
mb_preferred_mime_name - Get MIME charset string
mb_send_mail - Send encoded mail
mb_strcut - Get part of string
mb_strimwidth - Get truncated string with specified width
mb_stripos - Finds position of first occurrence of a string within another, case insensitive
mb_stristr - Finds first occurrence of a string within another, case insensitive
mb_strlen - Get string length
mb_strpos - Find position of first occurrence of string in a string
mb_strrchr - Finds the last occurrence of a character in a string within another
mb_strrichr - Finds the last occurrence of a character in a string within another, case insensitive
mb_strripos - Finds position of last occurrence of a string within another, case insensitive
mb_strrpos - Find position of last occurrence of a string in a string
mb_strstr - Finds first occurrence of a string within another
mb_substitute_character - Set/Get substitution character
mb_substr_count - Count the number of substring occurrences
mb_substr - Get part of string